Ward Cunningham served as Nike's open-data fellow. Ward co-founded the consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc. He has served as CTO of CitizenGlobal and AboutUs, as Director of the Eclipse Foundation, an Architect in Microsoft's Patterns & Practices Group, the Director of R&D at Wyatt Software and as Principle Engineer in the Tektronix Computer Research Laboratory.
Ward predicts the day when one will make Federated Wiki sites with the same frequency we now make documents. Its just too easy.